50 Real-Life Stories That Are Nothing Short Of ‘Fascinating’

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This Wild Orangutan Tried To Save A Man From A Snake Infested Pond Believing That He Was In Danger. The Man Was Actually There To Remove Snakes From The Pond To Keep The Apes Safe. This Ape Made Repeated Attempts To Help The Man, By Reaching Out His Hand

This Wild Orangutan Tried To Save A Man From A Snake Infested Pond Believing That He Was In Danger. The Man Was Actually There To Remove Snakes From The Pond To Keep The Apes Safe. This Ape Made Repeated Attempts To Help The Man, By Reaching Out His Hand

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50 Real-Life Stories That Are Nothing Short Of ‘Fascinating’

This Wild Orangutan Tried To Save A Man From A Snake Infested Pond Believing That He Was In Danger. The Man Was Actually There To Remove Snakes From The Pond To Keep The Apes Safe. This Ape Made Repeated Attempts To Help The Man, By Reaching Out His Hand

In 2019, A 5-Year-Old Michigan Boy Invitied His Kindergarden Class To Witness His Adoption. His Entire Class Showed Up

Chen Si Is A Man Who Spends His Weekends Visiting The Largest Bridge In China To Prevent People From Jumping. He Has Saved Over 300 People

In 2001, Kenny Waters, A Man Wrongfully Imprisoned For 18 Years, Was Finally Released After His High School Drop Out Sister Went To Law School, So That She Could Prove His Innocence

In 1996, A Mother Cat Named Scarlett Rescued All 5 Of Her Kittens From A Building Burning In NYC. She Walked Through Flames 5 Times To Rescue Each One

Daniel Kish Is A Blind Man Had To Have His Eyes Removed Before He Was 13 Months Old Because Of Eye Cancer

In 2000, Zanjeer, A Mumbai Police Dog, Was Was Honored With A Full State Funeral When He Died

In 2018, A Heroic Dad, Brad Lewis, Saved His Youngest Son From A Fatal Fall From A Balcony By Jumping After Him And Cradling Him To His Chest, Taking The Brunt Of The Impact

In 2009, Sgt. Dakota Meyer Disobeyed A Direct Order To Pull Back From His Position And Instead Rescued Wounded Soldiers From A Firefight Nearby

In 2007, Us Marine, Brian Dennis Befriended A Stray Desert Dog Called Nubs In Iraq. After The Dog Was Stabbed With A Screwdriver, The Marine Nursed Him Back To Health

In 1836, The Directors Of The Bank Of England Received An Anonymous Letter, In Which The Author Claimed To Have Direct Access To The Gold In The Bank

Barry Marshall Was Convinced That The Helicobacter Pylori Bacteria Caused Stomach Ulcers, But No One Believed Him

In 2012, A German Kindergarten Teacher Named Ina Koenig Jumped Down A 75-Foot Mine Shaft When A 3-Year-Old Student Of Hers Fell Into It

In Cluj, Romania, You Can Pay For Your Bus Ticket By Doing 20 Squats. Disabled And Elderly People Get To Ride For Free

Earlier This Year, A Portuguese Dog Named Bobi, Set The Record For The Worlds Oldest Dog. He’s 30 Years Old

On April 1, 2001, Hooters Offered Employees The Chance To Win A Toyota As Part Of A Beer Sales Contest

In 1993, A Man Named James Scott Purposely Damaged A Levee And Caused A Massive Flood Of The Mississippi River Only To Stall His Wife From Coming Home So That He Could Party

Richard Batista Gave His Wife A Kidney. Four Years Later, She Filed For A Divorce. During Court, Richard Demanded She Return His Kidney Or Pay $1.5 Million

In 1994, A 73-Year-Old Man Who Was ‘Too Blind’ To Get A Driver's License Drove 240 Miles From Northwestern Iowa To Southwestern Wisconsin, On A 1966 John Deere Lawnmower To Visit His Brother, Who Recently Had A Stroke

Li Jingzhi, A Chinese Woman, Was Reunited With Her Son, Jia Jia, Who Was Kidnapped In 1988

Iguazu Falls, It Is Shared Between Brazil And Argentina

On April 19th 1995, A Man Named Mcarthur Wheeler Robbed A Bank With Lemon Juice On His Face As A Disguise

Mt. Fuji From The International Space Station

In 2015, Aitabdel Salem, A 41-Year-Old From Queens, Spent 5 Months In Jail At Rikers Island, One Of The Country's Most Notorious Prisons, Not Knowing That His Bail Was Just $2

In 2001, Actor Mark Ruffalo Had A Realistic Dream That He Had A Brain Tumour

4000 Years Old Ancient Babylonian Clay Tablet Which Is A Customer's Letter Complaining About Sub-Standard Copper And Wanting A Refund. It Is Considered To Be The Oldest Known Written Complaint

Harrison Okene Spent 60 Hours Underwater In Darkness After His Boat Capsized 20 Miles Off The Coast Of Nigeria And Sank To The Bottom Of The Ocean. He Was Discovered Alive By Divers Who Were Sent To Recover Dead Bodies

This Is Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, Better Known As Fray Tormenta, Priest Who Wrestled To Feed Orphaned Children. Inspiration For Nacho Libre Movie

A Colombian Woman Named Marina Chapman Was Raised By Capuchin Monkeys For 5 Years After Being Abandoned In The Jungle

A Long Exposure Of A Plane Taking Off

Mercy Dogs Served In Both World Wars And Saved Countless Lives In The Process

In 1724, Margaret Dickson Was Hanged But Later Found Still Alive. She Then Was Allowed To Go Free Because Under Scots Law. Her Punishment Had Been Carried Out, She Could Not Be Executed For A 2nd Time For The Same Crime

A Man Who Thought He Was Suffering From Lung Cancer Underwent Urgent Surgery To Remove A Cancerous Growth In His Lungs. The Surgeons Discovered The Man Did Not Have Lung Cancer, The 'Growth' Was Actually Just A Toy Traffic Cone He Inhaled 40 Years Ago

This Is A Real Picture Taken By Photographer Keinichi Ohno. It's A Single Photo Of A Bird Standing At The Edge Of Some Water With A Wall And Its Reflection Creating A Fascinating Optical Illusion

Ann Hodges Shows Off Her Bruise After Being Hit By A Meteorite, 1954

On April 28, 1988, The Roof Of An Aloha Airlines Jet Ripped Off At 24,000 Feet, But The Plane Still Managed To Land. There Was One Fatality

In 2016, Michael Orchard Broke Into His Neighbour's Burning House And Rescued Their Dog. However, It Turned Out That The Dog Didn't Need Saving Because The House Was Not On Fire

In 1863, Jacob Miller, A Union Army Soldier From The 9th Indiana Infantry, Survived Being Shot In The Head During The Civil War

This Oak Door Belonging To Westminster Abbey Is The Oldest Door In Great Britain

In 2017, German Police In Frankfurt Found A Car Belonging To A 76-Year- Old Man Who Had Forgotten Where He Parked It, 20 Years Earlier

This Is A Dog With A Myostatin Deficiency, Which Allows For Unrestricted Muscle Growth

When Steve Fugate Lost His Two Children, He Hiked Across The United States For Over 12 Years With A Sign That Said "Love Life" To Remind People That They Can Always Overcome Life's Hardships, With The Right Mindset And To Never Give Up

The Largest And The Most Populated City On Earth, Tokyo, Japan

There Was A Fad In The 1950's Called Booth Stuffing Where Teens Would Try To Stuff Themselves In Phone Booths

A Single Red And White Colored Home On A Block Bordering The Ocean In Maui Miraculously Survived The Wildfires That Destroyed The Resort City Of Lahaina

The Inventor Of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, Was Such A Firm Believer In Its Medicinal Properties That He Claimed To Have Eaten A Spoonful Of It A Day

This Is Francesco Lentini, The 3 Legged Man. The Italian-American Circus Performer Was Born With 3 Legs, 4 Feet And 2 Sets Of Functioning Genitals. He Spent His Years Working For The Circus And Lived Until The Age Of 77

Bugs Seeking Higher Ground During A Flood

The Worlds Most Dangerous Plant

Vulture Bees Feed On Rotting Meat Instead Of Nectar And Their Honey Is Called Meat Honey. This Is Their Hive

In 2011, Pacific Islanders Uein Buranibwe, And Temaei Tontaake Got Lost At Sea After Their Gps Malfunctioned

Office Whiskey Machine From 1950's

Owen J. Baggett Became Legendary As The Only Person To Down A Japanese Aircraft With An M1911 Pistol Hitting The Pilot In The Head While He Was Parachuting

Residents Of West Berlin Showing Their Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Other Side In 1961

An Obese 100-Year-Old Crocodile Died From Overeating After Bengali Worshippers Repeatedly Threw It Sacrificial Chickens And Goats For Good Luck, As Villagers Became Desperate In An Uncertain Economic Climate

On November 17, 2012, José Salvador Alvarenga, A Salvadoran Fisherman, Embarked On A Two-Day Fishing Expedition Into The Pacific Ocean From A Small Fishing Village In Mexico

In North Carolina, A Girl Who Was Missing For 6 Years Has Been Found After A Stranger Recognised Her From An Episode Of “Unsolved Mysteries” On Netflix

A Scorpion Found In A Mine That's Turned Into Copper Over Time

On December 10, 1997 Julia Hill Climbed A Thousand Year Old Californian Redwood Tree And She Didn't Come Down For Another 738 Days

In 2012, The Chinese Government Built A Highway Around A Mans Home After He Refused To Move Out

In 1969, John Lennon And Yoko Ono Visited An Astrologer Who Told Them John Would Die On An Island

Runit Dome, A Leaky Concrete Sarcophagus Containing 73000 Cubic Meters Of Radioactive Debris From 68 Nuclear Detonations And Biological Warfare Remains On Marshall Islands

A Size Comparison Between The Titanic And A Modern Cruise Ship

Robert Liston Was A Scottish Surgeon In The 1800s Who Is Most Famous For Completing A Surgery That Resulted In A 300% Mortality Rate

In 2022, Three Men Survived An 11-Day Journey From Nigeria To The Canary Islands By Sitting On The Rudder Of A Ship

In 2011, A 29-Year-Old Australian Man Found An ATM Glitch That Allowed Him To Withdraw Cash Way Beyond His Balance

Between 2013 And 2015, Evaldas From Lithuania Received $99m From Facebook And $23m From Google By Forging Invoices For Goods They Hadn't Ordered

This Is What The Fangs Of The Goliath Tarantula Look Like, One Of The Largest Spiders In The Animal Kingdom

Stacking Pallets 155 Feet High For The World's Largest Bonfire In Norway

The Last Photograph Of The Beatles Together. August 22, 1969 At John Lennon’s Countryside Estate

In Order To Fulfill Michael Jackson's Dream Of Shopping Like An Everyday Person And Experiencing The Act Of "Placing Items In A Basket," A Supermarket Was Temporarily Closed

In 2012, A Chicago Man Named Brandon Preveau Bought A Car For $600 And Registered It In His Ex-Girlfriend's Name, He Then Parked It At O'hare Airport And Racked Up 678 Parking Tickets, Totaling A Whopping $105,761.80

These Are Members Of The Fat Men's Club Of NY (1904). Members Had To Be At Least 200 Pounds, Pay A $1 Fee To Enter And Learn A Secret Handshake And Password

In 2015, A German Man Was Ordered To Split Half His Belongings With His Ex-Wife After Filing For Divorce

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